ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation
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ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation
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#2Why are you worried GPT knows your location?
If you use any Apple stuff, it knows your exact location. Android is the same. Windows knows the exact location also.
So why would not GPT know that? Most webpages know your location, but since they also know your IP, they know in where you are, the city name at least, within a few KM.
You are talking about the location. You should be worried about using Apple, Android or Windows because they know a lot more than that.
update: forgot to mention that if you any of antisocial networks like Facebook or Twitter, they know where you live. And if you are on your room, kitchen or living room. Or outside. Or anywhere you go.
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#3Verified this is a thing. I asked it where I am and how it figured that out. It said it does not have access to my device’s GPS, IP address, or any other identifying information.
I then asked it for specific food locations near me and it listed them with pictures and the name of the town. I was never prompted to provide location information which my browser will prompt me if it is requested. My cookies are only from today. I have never visited the site before today. Linux workstation with arkenfox
I have never logged in or created an account on ChatGPT which I will not do until the potential assassination of whistleblower Suchir is resolved. The wikipedia page is missing a lot of factual data and contains misinformation. conflicts with pictures taken by his mother including the sabotaged surveillance system, blood in multiple rooms and a struggle in the blood, bloody wig, bullet trajectory down from in front and above, text messages and food order, covered in multiple interviews with pictures.
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#4Another curious behavior here is: LLMs are eager to use information available to them, even when it's completely irrelevant.
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#5Every service on the Internet knows its users' IP addresses. It's a very short trip for an interested party to convert an IP address to whatever it is that IP geolocation means today in 2025, where we even have things like RFC 8805 that seek to promote the active dissemination of that information.
What aspects of this blanket reality serve to make ChatGPT uniquely concerning, or even interesting?
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#6Verified this is a thing. I asked it where I am and how it figured that out. It said it does not have access to my device’s GPS, IP address, or any other identifying information. I then asked it for specific food locations near me and it listed them with pictures and the name of the town. I was never prompted to provide location information which my browser will prompt me if it is requested. My cookies are only from…
What is the big conspiracy that Suchir was allegedly killed for?
Everyone knows that OpenAi blatantly violated copyright during training but no one really cares
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#7So stop using it...
Re: ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation
#8Verified this is a thing. I asked it where I am and how it figured that out. It said it does not have access to my device’s GPS, IP address, or any other identifying information. I then asked it for specific food locations near me and it listed them with pictures and the name of the town. I was never prompted to provide location information which my browser will prompt me if it is requested. My cookies are only from…
What is the big conspiracy that Suchir was allegedly killed for? Everyone knows that OpenAi blatantly violated copyright during training but no one really cares
Everyone knows that OpenAi blatantly violated copyright during training but no one really cares
That was the purported reason [1] and I do not care about copyright either. Some believed that could be a threat to a potential 10 billion to 100 billion dollar industry. I do not know if that is enough for one to take preemptive measures.
[1] - https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/what-did-s...
Re: ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation
#9Why are you worried GPT knows your location? If you use any Apple stuff, it knows your exact location. Android is the same. Windows knows the exact location also. So why would not GPT know that? Most webpages know your location, but since they also know your IP, they know in where you are, the city name at least, within a few KM. You are talking about the location. You should be worried about using Apple, Android or…
The surprise isn't that OpenAI can figure out your location if they want to. The surprise is that OpenAI puts your location in ChatGPT's system prompt.
Re: ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation
#10Every service on the Internet knows its users' IP addresses. It's a very short trip for an interested party to convert an IP address to whatever it is that IP geolocation means today in 2025, where we even have things like RFC 8805 that seek to promote the active dissemination of that information. What aspects of this blanket reality serve to make ChatGPT uniquely concerning, or even interesting?
It's not transparent and, in some instances, leads to worse outputs. ChatGPT keeps telling me "since you are in Ireland, you can ..." when I'm not in Ireland, that's just what my VPN is set to.
At least on a normal site, it will usually ask "You're currently visiting the UK site, do you want to switch to our Irish/EU site"? Here, it just makes the assumption with no indication of it happening.